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| Africa: North |
| Egypt denies reports of 30 suspects arrested |
| 2004-10-10 |
| An Egyptian security official on Saturday denied reports that Egypt had arrested 30 suspects in connection with the blast that rocked Taba Hilton in South Sinai Thursday night, the official MENA news agency reported. "Investigations are still underway by a team of investigators, who arrived in Taba on Friday and began examining the scene of the blast," a security source was quoted as saying. The source added that all details of the blast are expected to be unveiled after the end of the investigations. MENA reported earlier that an Egyptian presidential spokesman said Saturday that it is still too early to say who were behind the blasts. The Egyptian security agencies were exerting utmost efforts to unravel all aspects of the attacks, but it is still too early to talk about how the explosives reached the site of the blast, who were behind the attacks and why they did this, Maged Abdel Fattah was quoted as saying. A deadly blast Thursday night rocked Hilton Taba hotel in Egypt's Sinai Peninsular, which was popular with Israeli tourists. Shortly after that, two other blasts occurred at holiday camps in Ras al-Sultan and Nuwaiba, not far away from Taba. Casualties vary in media reports. But Egyptian Interior Ministry said Saturday afternoon that the bombings claimed the lives of 34 people, including 30 in Taba Hilton hotel and four in two other explosions. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |